826 EEPTILIA. 



yellow ground. A black spot on the keel of each ventral. This type of coloration 

 agrees with snakes from the Khasia hills and Siam. 



The foregoing specimen was captured at Mandalay in Upper Burma. 



BEYIOPHID^. 



Genus Passeuita, Gray. 

 Passeeita mtctekizans, Linn. 



Coluier -mydenzans, Linn., Mus. Adolph. Frid., 1754, p. 38; Bonnat, OpMol. Eneycl. Method., 



1784, pi. XXX, fig. 62; Russell, Ind. Serp., vol. ii, 1801, pis. xii and xiii ; Daud. Kept., 1803, 



vol. vii, p. 9, pi. Ixxx, fig. 1. 

 Brjpmis nasutus, Merr. Tentam, 1820, p. 136 (nee Bell) ; Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Gen., 1854, vol. vii, 



p. 809. 

 Bryinus oxyrhynchus, Bell, Zool. Joum., 1821, p. 325. 

 Fasserita mycterizans, Gray, Ann. Phil., 1825, vol. x, p. 208; Glinth., Cat. Col. Sn., 1858, p. 160 ; 



id., Kept., B. Ind., 1864, p. 305 ; Proc. Zool. See., 1869, p. 502 ; Steind., Reise Novara, 1867, 



p. 73 ; Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc, 1868, vol. x, p. 53 ; Jan & Sord., Iconogr. Gdn. Ophid. 



1869, No. 32, pi. V ; Blanf., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, 1870, p. 373 ; Theobald, Descr. Cat. 



Kept., Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 193; Ferguson, Kept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 21. 

 Bryophis nasutus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 520 ; Guerin, Iconogr. Kept. Cuv. Reg. An., 1830, p. 22, fig. 



2 ; Jan & Sord., Iconogr. G^n. Oph., No. xxxii, pi. v, fig. 2. 

 Tragops nasutus, Wagler, Icon. Amphib., 1830, p. 184. 

 Bryiophis nasuta, Schleg., Phys. Serp., 1837, pi. x, fig. 1. 

 Herpetotragus nasutus, Fitz., Syst. Rept., 1843, p. 27. 



This snake appears to he sparingly but generally distributed over Burma. 

 Theobald has recorded it from Pegu, Prome, Thayetmyo and Tonghu, and I have 

 now to extend its distribution to Bhamd. I did not meet with it in the high, 

 region to the east of the last-mentioned locaUty. 



LYCOPONTID^. 



Genus Lycodon, D. & B. 



Lycodon aulicus, Linn. 



Russel, Ind. Serp., vol. ii, 1801, p. 42, pi. xxxix, var. A, 



Coluber aulicus, Linn., Mus. Adolph. Frid., 1754, vol. i, p. 29, pi. xii, fig. 2; id,, Syst. Nat., 12th 

 ed., ] 766, vol. i, p. 381. 



Lycodon aulicus, Boie, Isis, 1826, vol. xix, p. 981; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi pt 2 

 1847, p. 915; Jerd., Joui-n. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxii, 1853, p. 528; Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. 

 Gen., vol. vii, 1854, p. 369; Giinth., Cat. Col. Sn., 1858, p. 201; Rept. B. Ind., 1864, 

 p. 316; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxix, 1860, p. 110; Steind., Reise Novara, 1867^ 

 p. 74; Stol., Joum. As. Soc, Bengal, 1870, pp. 137, 141, 201; id., op. cil., 1873, pp. II5' 

 162j Jan & Sord., Icon. Gen. Oph., No. xxxvi, 1870, pi. iv, fig. 1; Theobald, Descr. Cat! 

 Rept., Brit. Ind., ] 876, p. 199 ; Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 21. 



Lycodon hehe, Schleg., Phys. Serp., 1837, vol. ii, p. 106, pi. iv, figs. 1-3 (nee C. hebe, Daud.) 



Tytlena hjpsirhmoicles, Theob., Joum. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, ex. No,, p. 66- Journ 

 Lmn. Soc, 1868, vol. x, p, 49, 



